The Adelphi: Fifteen: Uriah Heep
The business in the Commons had been sliding since the death of Mr Spenlow. Mr Jorkins was not popular among the clients. The firm was compelled to spend more on hangers-on and outsiders to bring business. Marriage licenses and small probates the firm looked for, and the competition for these ran high. Miss Betsey wanted her nephew to go to Dover, to see that all was well with the cottage and to conclude a new agreement with the same tenant for a further period. She had in her mind to get him occupied with something to divert his attention on Dora. Janet, her maid was now in the service of Mrs Strong. Thus she had escaped the compulsion of her lover to enter into an early marriage. Trotwood found everything satisfactory at the cottage in Dover. The tenant, like Miss Betsey had been waging incessant war against donkeys. Trotwood got her sign the new agreement and returned to Canterbury. It was now winter; the fresh cold windy day, sweeping downland brightened his ...